Richard Lavenham and the Cambridge Logic

This paper argues that the 14th-century Oxford Carmelite Richard Lavenham was the author of the treatise De syncategorematibus that was used as a textbook in 15th-century Cambridge, a version of which was printed several times in the late 15th and early 16th centuries in the Libellus sophistarum ad usum Cantabrigiensium. The manuscript versions of this treatise differ significantly from one another and from the printed editions, so that the claim of Lavenham's authorship needs to be carefully considered. The evidence for this claim is described briefly. The identification of the De syncategorematibus in the Cambridge Libellus as Lavenham's provides the first real indication that Lavenham, whose works testify to the influence of other authors on logico-linguistic studies in late 14th-century Oxford, was himself not without influence as late as the early 16th century. On the other hand, the De syncategorematibus is not a very competent treatise, so that its inclusion as a textbook in the Libellus sophistarum is an indication of the decline of the logical study of language in England during this period. A brief analysis of the contents of the treatise supports this observation

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• Modal logic

  Open Access•Simo Knuuttila•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• Humanism and the teaching of logic

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• Ancient scholastic logic as the source of medieval scholastic logic

  Open Access•Sten Ebbesen•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• From the beginning to the early fourteenth century

  Open Access•Eleonore Stump•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• The semantics of terms

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• Medieval philosophical literature

  Open Access•Anthony Kenny, Jan Pinborg•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• The origins of the theory of the properties of terms

  Open Access•L M De Rijk•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• Syncategoremata, exponibilia, sophismata

  Open Access•Norman Kretzmann•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• Free will and free choice

  Open Access•J B Korolec•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• Abelard and the culmination of the old logic

  Open Access•Martin M Tweedale•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• Happiness

  Open Access•G Darryl Wieland, Georg Wieland•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• Aristoteles latinus

  Open Access•Bernard G Dod•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• Changes in the approach to language

  Open Access•W Keith Percival•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy

  Open Access•Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny et al.•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• The reception and interpretation of Aristotle's Ethics

  Open Access•G Darryl Wieland, Georg Wieland•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• The medieval interpretation of Aristotle

  Open Access•C H Lohr•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy

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• Thomas Aquinas on human action

  Open Access•Alan Donagan•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• The Oxford and Paris traditions in logic

  Open Access•Alain De Libera•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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• Mysticism

  Open Access•Christina Van Dyke•The Cambridge History of Medieval…•2009

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• The potential and the agent intellect

  Open Access•Zdzislw Kuksewicz•The Cambridge history of later…•1982

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